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Re: Firewalls - Ease of Use and Maintenance?
From: Richard Kulawiec <rsk () gsp org>
Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2011 08:11:45 -0500
On Wed, Nov 09, 2011 at 03:32:45PM +0300, Alex Nderitu wrote:
An important feature lacking for now as far as I know is content/web filtering especially for corporates wishing to block inappropriate/time wasting content like facebook.
1. That's not a firewall function. That's a censorship function. 2. You can of course easily do that via a variety of means, including BOGUS'ing the domains in DNS, blocking port 80 traffic to their network allocations, running an HTTP proxy that blocks them, etc. I presume that any minimally-competent censor could easily devise a first-order solution (using the software packages supplied with OpenBSD) in an afternoon. ---rsk
Current thread:
- RE: Firewalls - Ease of Use and Maintenance?, (continued)
- RE: Firewalls - Ease of Use and Maintenance? Blake T. Pfankuch (Nov 08)
- RE: Firewalls - Ease of Use and Maintenance? R. Benjamin Kessler (Nov 08)
- Re: Firewalls - Ease of Use and Maintenance? Jonathan Lassoff (Nov 08)
- Re: Firewalls - Ease of Use and Maintenance? Seth Mos (Nov 09)
- Re: Firewalls - Ease of Use and Maintenance? Tom Hill (Nov 09)
- Re: Firewalls - Ease of Use and Maintenance? Seth Mos (Nov 09)
- Re: Firewalls - Ease of Use and Maintenance? Tom Hill (Nov 09)
- Re: Firewalls - Ease of Use and Maintenance? Tom Hill (Nov 09)
- Re: Firewalls - Ease of Use and Maintenance? Richard Kulawiec (Nov 09)
- Re: Firewalls - Ease of Use and Maintenance? Alex Nderitu (Nov 09)
- Re: Firewalls - Ease of Use and Maintenance? Joe Greco (Nov 09)
- Re: Firewalls - Ease of Use and Maintenance? Richard Kulawiec (Nov 09)
- Re: Firewalls - Ease of Use and Maintenance? Joe Greco (Nov 09)
- Re: Firewalls - Ease of Use and Maintenance? -Hammer- (Nov 09)
- Re: Firewalls - Ease of Use and Maintenance? -Hammer- (Nov 09)
- Re: Firewalls - Ease of Use and Maintenance? Valdis . Kletnieks (Nov 09)
- Re: Firewalls - Ease of Use and Maintenance? Joe Greco (Nov 09)
- Re: Firewalls - Ease of Use and Maintenance? Alex Nderitu (Nov 09)
- RE: Firewalls - Ease of Use and Maintenance? Nathan Eisenberg (Nov 09)
- Re: Firewalls - Ease of Use and Maintenance? Jonathan Lassoff (Nov 09)
- Re: Firewalls - Ease of Use and Maintenance? Nick Hilliard (Nov 09)
- RE: Firewalls - Ease of Use and Maintenance? Nathan Eisenberg (Nov 09)